In the few short weeks we have left of summer, you can read a couple of these gems, each only 200 pages long (or less). They're everything you want in late summer: a little bit French (The Waitress Was New and The End of Eddy), a little bit dark (The Redemption of Galen Pike and I'm Thinking of Ending Things), a little bit warped (Days of Abandonment and Fever Dream), delightfully enlightening (300 Arguments, The Last Word, and Curry), and gently profound (Walks with Walser).